Industrial Hemp Harvest in Deutschland
Newly legalized, textile mills are processing the country’s first modern harvest of industrial hemp. Michael Lawton reports from Germany on the new varieties of the crop, which cannot be made into marijuana, and the forecast for the multi-purpose crop’s financial success.
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